yearning at the bottom of a well.

Nice middle-class kids who met at an all-boys’ private school, Radiohead sometimes seem less like a band than a group of school chums on an outing. They’re all poetry buffs. Thomas Edward Yorke (Thom for short) shrank his middle initial in tribute to e. e. cummings. They’re given to starting sentences with phrases like “As Arthur Miller said in his autobiography” or ” I think a good place to start would be Noam Chomsky.” Only Jonny betrays any self-consciousness, breaking off in the middle of describing a Sylvia Plath poem, apologizing for referring to poetry in a pretentious fashion. Don’t worry, I tell him, you’ve all done it.
His eyes widen. “Have we? How ghastly.

Details, November 1993 (via fuckyeahradioheadquotes)

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